jerm

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Albanian

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From Proto-Albanian *erma. Compare Lithuanian ermas (“monster”), Latvian erms (“wonderful apparition”),[1] and also Old English gyrman, dialectal Danish jærme (“to lament, shriek”), dialectal Norwegian jerme (“to bleat”), dialectal Swedish jarma (“to lament, shriek”), Icelandic jarma (“to whine, complain, bleat”).

Noun

[edit]

jerm m

  1. delirium, absent mindedness

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “jerm”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 158
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=jerm&oldid=54172048"